This Christmas pudding evolved over the years and now I never change it. I like to use tart as well as sweet dried fruit, and buy the best you can. Chop up the larger pieces of dried fruit. Mix with ...

Any day now it will arrive stamped by the Royal Mail: a truly homemade Christmas pudding from my family in England. My mother always made Christmas puddings. And before moving to the U.S., I would ...

The Christmas pudding, a legacy of the British Empire, is enjoyed around the world -- including in former British colonies. esp_imaging/iStock via Getty Images Plus As an American living in Britain in ...

English cuisine has always been laughed at by its European neighbors as bland, greasy and overcooked. This may or not be true, but one thing is for sure—not one of our European neighbors’ cuisines can ...

Christmas dinner in England, or any place else where you’ll find traditional Brits, would not be complete without finishing it off with the presentation and serving of English Christmas Pudding. When ...

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Christmas pudding has been a holiday treat in England from the times of Charles Dickens to Harry Potter. As a student of English literature and 19th century novelist Thomas Hardy, I knew about ...

Americans know Australia as the land Down Under, and one consequence of this geographical flip is that Christmas here falls at the height of summer. Our 100-degree temperatures aren't exactly ...